[Effect of a fatty-series narcotic (ether) and a barbiturate (hexenal) on the regional distribution of the total and nutritive blood flow].

Inhalation of diethyl ether and intraperitoneal injection of hexenal in doses that provide a surgical state of anesthesia are accompanied by changes in the regional tone of the resistive blood vessels as well as by those in the ratio between the nutritive and shunting fractions of the blood flow in organs and tissues. The increase in the rate and enlargement of the area of transcapillary metabolism in the brain and myocardium (notwithstanding the decrease of the total blood flow in these organs) by means of the increased shunting fractions of the blood flow in vast skin and skeletal muscle areas are considered to be the most important events. Diethyl ether and hexenal cause different changes in the hepatic and renal hemodynamics.